Too Many Choices
It is now March, which means the school year is 3/4 over (approximately) and the list of things I hoped to do this year is still long. Of course, spring time means standardizing testing time, with a writing test fast approaching on April 10, and the math and reading tests coming in mid May. We are teaching all our regular curriculum, plus squeezing in writing intervention groups and math intervention groups. After that there's just two weeks left in our school year. Some years, I bellyached how early the tests were, how was I supposed to teach the year's curriculum with a full six weeks left in the year? This year I am wondering how I can squeeze all the "fun" stuff into the last two weeks of the year. In addition to covering the state standards, equally important for the students to learn are the untested skills. Independence Self-motivation Follow through Digital Citizenship (especially with research) Collaboration Problem Solving Creativity Empath...
